Over the last couple of weeks I have been experiencing the same problem as described in Keep getting logged out of StackOverflow today. As you can see from the screenshot of my openid activity I have to log in every so often. More frustrating is the fact that it seems to happen just as I am answering a question or voting on something, of course I do know that it is pure coincidence! :)

I run the latest Chrome development version, currently 5.0.375.3, and have experienced this
through the last couple of versions (probably about 3 or 4 versions now) but it started on the same day as that previous question was asked. I do know that Chrome dev is not officially supported here, but seeing as how this issue is identical (in every way, except the fixed part) to the previously completed bug I wonder if they are related.

Yes, they don't seem to have an issue. Though I do it mostly for commenting.

No, I confirmed that my profile information is valid.

It can be, but that's when I get the "No endpoint found" so this is a non-issue.

No, the initial site is in the clear and then gets redirected to MyOpenID.

Also of note: I set up the alternate provider (my parimary provider is my own site that directs to MyOpenID and my alternate is MyOpenID directly) as Google and the issue still happened.

I am looking for confirmation that there is a bug here on SOFU or if I need to file a bug with Chrome. I currently use my same openid url for the SOFU sites as well as a couple others and I only experience the problem here. I know of other users using the same Chrome version without this issue (which worries me that it was something I did, but I cannot figure out what...). I do experience this on both my work machine and home so I do not think it is cache related.

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Somehow (I am not sure how, but I probably did it) the option Block all third-party cookies without exception was checked. I had seen this checked before and discounted it because I didn't figure that the cookie to stay signed in was considered "third-party". I had ignored it because I did have cookies from stackoverflow.com/superuser.com/etc. and figured that was the authentication cookie.

Obviously not.

Unchecking the option has allowed me to log in to all 4 major sites and stay logged in.

I am the "other user" he refers to - I use the same builds of Chrome dev on the same networks (we work at the same University, and both have Comcast HSI in the same city) and I don't have these problems. Do you have an "unoffical" idea to what the cause might be?
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Jared HarleyApr 14 '10 at 21:50

Yeah, I know, I've gotten that from you before. :) I guess I'm looking to see if it is still a bug on this end (since it did happen once for Chrome 4 and 5) or if I should file a bug report with Chrome. The biggest issue I have so far is, it only appears to happen with SOFU and no other sites.
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JoshuaApr 14 '10 at 21:51

@jared possibly bad plugins? Supporting dev builds is too expensive for the time it costs and the benefit is nil.
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Jeff Atwood♦Apr 14 '10 at 21:52

Jeff, I was able to fix it, but are the cookies considered third-party? I figured the authentication/information cookie stuff would be first-party since it originates from this site and all that fun stuff.
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JoshuaApr 15 '10 at 17:00